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单词 time out
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Definition of time out in English:

time out

noun
  • 1mass noun Time for rest or recreation away from one's usual work or studies.

    she is taking time out from her hectic tour
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I tried to go back but eventually chose to take time out and to leave any decisions about returning until this September.
    • So, we at the Listener are inviting you take time out for some creative leisure.
    • I'm going to take some time out and just think about the past five years.
    • It is during this period of time out of the workforce that the debt would grow.
    • Learn to relax and enjoy quality time out of life's normal rat race.
    • He chooses the work he wants to be involved in, and wants to take more time out, have more holidays.
    • His time out last year while serving a drugs ban may have also provided a mental break.
    • I also took some time out for me this weekend and went white water rafting on one of the fastest rivers in the world!
    • Robinson will now take some time out of the game while he waits to see what other coaching jobs become available.
    • All the children at the school, aged four to seven took time out of their day to complete the task in the hope of winning an Easter egg.
    • It has been a hectic few months and I intend to take a bit of time out for myself.
    • Since then, his rise has been interrupted by time out for injuries - his knee, mostly.
    • I followed them across the docks toward the buildings while workers took time out to stare at me.
    • I'm going to take some time out to think about my future and what I should do next.
    • Shane had taken time out to recover from a viral infection and jetted off to the sun for a break.
    • It's important to take time out once in a while to enjoy the fruits of one's labours, smell the roses and enjoy.
    • At this point everything should be under control so you can take time out of the kitchen.
    • Swindon donors who took the time out this summer to give a pint of blood are being thanked by the National Blood Service.
    • Women took time out from their busy jobs to enjoy a day of pampering at a health and beauty workshop.
    • In the future he may well take time out again to volunteer his services in other countries.
    Synonyms
    rest, respite, interval, breathing space, lull, recess
    1. 1.1 A brief break in play in a game or sport.
      he called for a timeout from the game
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In international basketball, a coach may request a timeout with the scorers table.
      • During a timeout in the second quarter, a fan in his 40s threw a football through a hole in a board 25 yards away for $500,000.
      • Twenty-one seconds is a veritable lifetime in NFL fast-break standards, and with two timeouts left, the final minute of the game would have felt longer than a Fellini film.
      • In the playoffs, at least, everyone goes all out - attend a play-off game and what you see, during timeouts, are sweat-drenched players tugging at their shorts and gasping for breath.
      • Those timeouts at the end of the game don't do you any good if they're in your hip pocket.
      • If Manning sees himself running out of time because the defense is playing pre-snap games, he will use a timeout.
      • You are only allowed 3 or 4 timeouts per game, depending upon your league or tournament rules.
      • Coughlin always has demanded total control, to the extent he doesn't allow any assistant to call a timeout during a game.
      • How unprepared do you have to be to call a defensive timeout before the second play from scrimmage?
      • Then, in a plan arranged during a previous timeout and with the game tied, McGrady went straight up the court with 10.4 seconds left.
      • It was a close game, and the team had no timeouts left.
      • That's fine and dandy, but if fans already have sat through a four-quarter game, what are a few more minutes during a timeout or in overtime?
      • With six seconds remaining and no timeouts, the Titans had one play to try to force overtime.
      • The Vikings appeared generally unprepared in the first quarter, blowing two timeouts in the game's first four minutes.
      • Of course, you don't want to suggest a change the day before a crucial game, or in the timeout before a critical free throw.
      • Do college basketball officials view the glut of timeouts at the end of games as a problem?
      • With less than six minutes left, Iverson, the smallest man on the court, pounded his hand on the scorer's table during a timeout and guaranteed victory.
      • In international play you have to register timeouts with the scorer's table.
      • Substitutions rules are different for 20-second timeouts than for full timeouts.
      • Fast forward to the first timeout during a game when Starks yells at someone for taking an ill-advised shot.
    2. 1.2 A brief period of time during which a misbehaving child is put on their own so that they can regain control over their emotions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He had been behaving since we got here, but had already been in time out once today.
  • 2Computing
    A cancellation or cessation that automatically occurs when a predefined interval of time has passed without a certain event occurring.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other possibilities include gauge and progress bars, info boxes with timeouts and file display windows.
    • For effective fault tolerance, this time must be fast enough to prevent application session timeouts.
    • Message input-output implementations will typically have timeouts that are too short for some business activity responses.
    • Logged-in sessions have an automatic timeout as well.
    • After these problems are fixed and more load is applied in a test, we then encounter problems like resource exhaustion, buffer overflows, timeouts and inconsistent behaviour.
 
 

Definition of time out in US English:

time out

nounˌtaɪm ˈaʊtˌtīm ˈout
  • 1Time for rest or recreation away from one's usual work or studies.

    she is taking time out from her hectic tour
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His time out last year while serving a drugs ban may have also provided a mental break.
    • I tried to go back but eventually chose to take time out and to leave any decisions about returning until this September.
    • It has been a hectic few months and I intend to take a bit of time out for myself.
    • Learn to relax and enjoy quality time out of life's normal rat race.
    • At this point everything should be under control so you can take time out of the kitchen.
    • All the children at the school, aged four to seven took time out of their day to complete the task in the hope of winning an Easter egg.
    • He chooses the work he wants to be involved in, and wants to take more time out, have more holidays.
    • Women took time out from their busy jobs to enjoy a day of pampering at a health and beauty workshop.
    • Robinson will now take some time out of the game while he waits to see what other coaching jobs become available.
    • I also took some time out for me this weekend and went white water rafting on one of the fastest rivers in the world!
    • I followed them across the docks toward the buildings while workers took time out to stare at me.
    • I'm going to take some time out to think about my future and what I should do next.
    • In the future he may well take time out again to volunteer his services in other countries.
    • So, we at the Listener are inviting you take time out for some creative leisure.
    • It's important to take time out once in a while to enjoy the fruits of one's labours, smell the roses and enjoy.
    • I'm going to take some time out and just think about the past five years.
    • Shane had taken time out to recover from a viral infection and jetted off to the sun for a break.
    • Since then, his rise has been interrupted by time out for injuries - his knee, mostly.
    • It is during this period of time out of the workforce that the debt would grow.
    • Swindon donors who took the time out this summer to give a pint of blood are being thanked by the National Blood Service.
    Synonyms
    rest, respite, interval, breathing space, lull, recess
    1. 1.1 A brief break in play in a game or sport.
      he inadvertently called for a timeout with two seconds remaining
      Example sentencesExamples
      • How unprepared do you have to be to call a defensive timeout before the second play from scrimmage?
      • In international basketball, a coach may request a timeout with the scorers table.
      • That's fine and dandy, but if fans already have sat through a four-quarter game, what are a few more minutes during a timeout or in overtime?
      • Substitutions rules are different for 20-second timeouts than for full timeouts.
      • Those timeouts at the end of the game don't do you any good if they're in your hip pocket.
      • During a timeout in the second quarter, a fan in his 40s threw a football through a hole in a board 25 yards away for $500,000.
      • Do college basketball officials view the glut of timeouts at the end of games as a problem?
      • In the playoffs, at least, everyone goes all out - attend a play-off game and what you see, during timeouts, are sweat-drenched players tugging at their shorts and gasping for breath.
      • In international play you have to register timeouts with the scorer's table.
      • Then, in a plan arranged during a previous timeout and with the game tied, McGrady went straight up the court with 10.4 seconds left.
      • With less than six minutes left, Iverson, the smallest man on the court, pounded his hand on the scorer's table during a timeout and guaranteed victory.
      • Of course, you don't want to suggest a change the day before a crucial game, or in the timeout before a critical free throw.
      • If Manning sees himself running out of time because the defense is playing pre-snap games, he will use a timeout.
      • Coughlin always has demanded total control, to the extent he doesn't allow any assistant to call a timeout during a game.
      • It was a close game, and the team had no timeouts left.
      • You are only allowed 3 or 4 timeouts per game, depending upon your league or tournament rules.
      • Fast forward to the first timeout during a game when Starks yells at someone for taking an ill-advised shot.
      • With six seconds remaining and no timeouts, the Titans had one play to try to force overtime.
      • The Vikings appeared generally unprepared in the first quarter, blowing two timeouts in the game's first four minutes.
      • Twenty-one seconds is a veritable lifetime in NFL fast-break standards, and with two timeouts left, the final minute of the game would have felt longer than a Fellini film.
    2. 1.2also timeout" or "time-out An imposed temporary suspension of activities, especially the separation of a misbehaving child from one or more playmates as a disciplinary measure.
      it's the third time this week he's been in time-out
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He had been behaving since we got here, but had already been in time out once today.
  • 2Computing
    A cancellation or cessation that automatically occurs when a predefined interval of time has passed without a certain event occurring.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After these problems are fixed and more load is applied in a test, we then encounter problems like resource exhaustion, buffer overflows, timeouts and inconsistent behaviour.
    • For effective fault tolerance, this time must be fast enough to prevent application session timeouts.
    • Message input-output implementations will typically have timeouts that are too short for some business activity responses.
    • Logged-in sessions have an automatic timeout as well.
    • Other possibilities include gauge and progress bars, info boxes with timeouts and file display windows.
 
 
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